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The present report is submitted for consideration to the conference of African ministers of finance, planning and economic development of the economic commission for Africa (ECA), in response to its request to receive regular updates on reports that the African institute for economic development and planning submits to its governing council and management. It is based on the report of the director of the institute presented to the council at its fifty-sixth meeting, held in Dakar on 19 March 2018. The year 2017 was a very productive one for the Institute. It continued to be characterized by strategic shifts in the delivery mechanisms and orientation of the Institute’s program during the biennium 2016-2017. Those shifts were introduced as the Institute’s immediate response to the capacity development needs expressed by states members of ECA in the context of the implementation of national priorities in respect of both the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, as well as the increasing number of requests for Institute services from member States. The year 2017 was a success both for the Institute’s program and member States. Overall, program performance was excellent, with 99 per cent of all planned program outputs delivered on time and meeting expectations for quality, as evidenced by the responses provided by trainees on the evaluation questionnaires given to them at the end of each course.